Manet. "I did what I saw" - Découvertes Gallimard (n° 203)

GK197986
FRENCH LANGUAGE

"I did what I saw", said Manet. Is it that simple? Is the author of the Déjeuner sur l'herbe, the portraits of Zola, Mallarmé, Clemenceau and Berthe Morisot, the painter of cafés-concerts and boating, who jokingly defined himself as "the Saint Francis of still life", the first of the...
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Characteristics

Dimensions
12,4 x 17,8 x 1 cm
Art movement
Impressionism
Artist
Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
Reference
GK197986
EAN
9782073021649
Matière de l'article
Papier
Size of the book
Paperback with flap
Editor
RMNGP + GALLIMARD
Diffusor
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Distributor
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Conservation museum
Paris - Musée d'Orsay

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Edouard Manet (1832-1883)

Edouard Manet (1832-1883)

Major French painter and engraver of the late 19th century. A precursor of modern painting, which he freed from academism, Édouard Manet is wrongly considered to be one of the fathers of Impressionism: he differs from it in that he is concerned about reality and makes little or no use of the new techniques of colour and the particular treatment of light.
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